The ZTE Axon mini comes with a 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Super AMOLED 2.5D curved display with pressure sensitive touch. It is powered by Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 64-bit processor along with Adreno 405 GPU and 3GB of RAM. The internal storage is 32GB which is expandable upto 128GB via microSD card. It is running on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with MiFavor 3.2 on the top of it.

The back camera is 13MP with LED Flash while the front facing camera is 8MP with wide-angle lens to take high qualities selfies and video calls.

It has 4G LTE as network option and Wi-Fi 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, GPSas connectivity options. It also has a 2800mAh battery under the hood.